Re: PENTAX 645N Medium Format Camera

["Willem-Jan Markerink" <w.j.markerink@xxxxx>]

On  3 Jul 98 at 21:53, Don Roberts wrote:

> Interesting.  I just read a review of this camera in Outdoor Photographer
> and it didn"t mention interchangeable backs nor did the photos show such a
> feature.  I don't believe the previous model had magazines, does the new
> one?

B+H listed it for Pentax 645, ie previous models, and a Dutch article 
clearly shows removable backs....perhaps more 'insertable magazine' 
than 'back', but exhangeable nontheless.
The only thing I am not 100% sure about is whether the old magazines 
will fit the new camera, but there is nothing fancy on these new 
backs what the old ones would lack....not even an ASA setting.

Oh, B+H price for the 70mm back is US$800....8-))
It comes with extended eyepiece, as the 70mm magazine takes much more 
space and protrudes out of the camera significantly (just like your 
ETRSi unit).
Still cheaper than the NPC polaroid back (US$1200)....;-))

Now you only need an AF APO tele lens to make this combination 
perfect....;-))

Anyone willing to donate a 350/5.6 Mamiya RB APO to me?....:-))


- -- 
Bye,

Willem-Jan Markerink


      The desire to understand 
is sometimes far less intelligent than
     the inability to understand


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